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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's a battle outside/ And it is ragin'/ It'll soon shake your windows/ And rattle your walls/ For the times they are a-changin'..."'']]
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4	''The Times They Are A-Changin' '' is the third studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1964. It is one of Dylan's well-known albums, epitomized by the eponymous title track, which has become his SignatureSong and a much-covered song over the years. The album is also known for the fan favorites "Ballad of Hollis Brown", "With God on Our Side" and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll".
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6	It is also notable for being the first Dylan album with all self-written material.
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9	!! Tracklist:
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11	[[AC: Side One]]
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13	# "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (3:15)
14	# "Ballad of Hollis Brown" (5:06)
15	# "With God on Our Side" (7:08)
16	# "One Too Many Mornings" (2:41)
17	# "North Country Blues" (4:35)
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19	[[AC: Side Two]]
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21	# "Only a Pawn in Their Game" (3:33)
22	# "Boots of Spanish Leather" (4:40)
23	# "When the Ship Comes In" (3:18)
24	# "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" (5:48)
25	# "Restless Farewell" (5:32)
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28	!! The Tropes They Are a-Tropin':
29	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "When the Ship Comes In"
30	--> ''And the ship's wise men will remind you once again that the whole wide world is watchin' ''
31	* AntiquatedLinguistics: The word "A-changin'" in the title track.
32	* AsTheGoodBookSays: "When the Ship Comes In" refers to Moses splitting the sea and Goliath being destroyed by David. "With God on Our Side" mentions Jesus Christ and Judas.
33	* BalladOfX: "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown".
34	* BeliefMakesYouStupid: "With God On Our Side", where many people throughout history have killed people in the name of God.
35	* BreakupSong: "One Too Many Mornings", "Boots Of Spanish Leather".
36	--> ''You're right from your side''
37	--> ''I'm right from mine''
38	--> ''We're both just too many mornings''
39	--> ''And a thousand miles behind''
40	* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: "With God On Our Side"
41	--> ''I've learned to hate Russians''
42	--> ''All through my whole life''
43	--> ''If another war comes''
44	--> ''It's them we must fight''
45	--> ''To hate them and fear them''
46	--> ''To run and to hide''
47	--> ''And accept it all bravely''
48	--> ''With God on my side.''
49	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white.
50	* TheEeyore: This is Dylan at his most dour, as the majority of the songs are about injustice of one sort or another, and even the non-protest songs ("One Too Many Mornings", "Boots of Spanish Leather", "Restless Farewell") are bittersweet tales of regret.
51	* EpicRocking: The 7:08 "With God On Our Side".
52	* FaceOnTheCover: Dylan's face in close-up.
53	* TheFutureWillBeBetter: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" announces a change in society. Which would turn out to be prophetic, as the tumultous 1960s rolled around.
54	* TheGreatFlood:
55	** Dylan uses the metaphor of a flood in "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
56	--->''And admit that the waters\
57	Around you have grown\
58	And accept it that soon\
59	You'll be drenched to the bone\
60	If your time to you\
61	Is worth savin'\
62	Then you better start swimmin'\
63	Or you'll sink like a stone\
64	For the times they are a-changin'''
65	** He uses this imagery again in "When The Ship Comes In".
66	--->''And like Pharaoh's tribe\
67	They'll be drowned in the tide''
68	* HistoricalBiographySong: "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is one of the activist variety.
69	* KarmaHoudini: William Zantzinger in "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll", who gets off with only six months of jailtime for the murder of Hattie Carroll. De-constructed in "Only A Pawn In Their Game".
70	-->''But when the shadowy sun sets on the one that fired the gun\
71	He’ll see by his grave on the stone that remains\
72	Carved next to his name, his epitaph plain:\
73	"ONLY A PAWN IN THEIR GAME"''
74	* LyricSwap:
75	** Each chorus of "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" ends with "now ain't the time for your tears", until the last verse reveals that the murderer got off with a slap on the wrist and Dylan concludes "NOW is the time for your tears."
76	** "With God On Our Side" is about being taught that each increasingly destructive war throughout history was won because the winners "had God on their side". It eventually ends on "If God is on our side, He'll ''stop'' the next war."
77	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Hollis Brown is a dead broke man with five kids.
78	* MiscarriageOfJustice: "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll", where the murderer of kitchen maid Hattie Carroll is sentenced to only 6 months jail, because of his wealthy roots.
79	* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "With God On Our Side" criticizes the American government and army for their genocide on the Native American during the 19th century and the bloodshed during the American Civil War and Spanish-American War. It also criticizes the RedScare and the nuclear arms race.
80	* OneManSong: "Ballad Of Hollis Brown"
81	* OneWomanSong: "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll".
82	* PaterFamilicide: "Ballad Of Hollis Brown", in which the dirt poor farmer kills his infants because he cannot take care of them anymore.
83	* PepTalkSong:
84	** "The Times They Are-A Changin'" was perceived by many people in the 1960s as the call that society was going to change for the better.
85	** "When The Ship Comes In", where the foes will "drown in the tide and like Goliath they'll be conquered".
86	* PopCulturalOsmosis: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" has become almost synonymous with Dylan and the revolutionary society changes of TheSixties in general.
87	* ProtestSong: "The Times They Are A-Changin'", "With God On Our Side", "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll", "Only A Pawn In Their Game"... this album is basically Dylan embracing protest songs altogether. (Only to largely abandon them on his next album six months later.)
88	* RecordProducer: Tom Wilson.
89	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" was inspired by a real-life hotel barmaid struck down by a wealthy white man in a hotel in Maryland (1963). "Only A Pawn In Their Game" is based on the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
90	* RuleOfSeven: "Ballad Of Hollis Brown".
91	-->''There's seven breezes a-blowin'\
92	All around the cabin door\
93	There's seven breezes a-blowin'\
94	All around the cabin door\
95	Seven shots ring out\
96	Like the ocean's pounding roar.\
97	There's seven people dead\
98	On a South Dakota farm\
99	There's seven people dead\
100	On a South Dakota farm\
101	Somewhere in the distance\
102	[[BirthDeathJuxtaposition There's seven new people born]].''
103	* SecondPersonNarration: "Ballad Of Hollis Brown".
104	-->''You looked for work and money\
105	And you walked a rugged mile\
106	You looked for work and money\
107	And you walked a rugged mile\
108	Your children are so hungry\
109	That they don't know how to smile.''
110	* SlobsVsSnobs: PlayedForDrama in "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll".
111	-->''Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchen\
112	She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children\
113	Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage\
114	And never sat once at the head of the table\
115	And didn't even talk to the people at the table\
116	Who just cleaned up all the food from the table\
117	And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level''
118	* SomethingBlues: "North Country Blues".
119	* AStormIsComing:
120	** The title track.
121	--->''There's a battle outside\
122	And it is ragin'\
123	It'll soon shake your windows\
124	And rattle your walls\
125	For the times they are a-changin'. ''
126	** "Boots Of Spanish Leather"
127	--->''So take heed, take heed of the western wind\
128	Take heed of the stormy weather''
129	* TitleTrack:
130	-->''(...) for the times they are a-changin' ''
131	* WarIsHell: "With God On Our Side"
132	-->''But now we got weapons\
133	Of the chemical dust\
134	If fire them we're forced to\
135	Then fire them we must\
136	One push of the button\
137	And a shot the world wide\
138	And you never ask questions\
139	When God's on your side.''
140	* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: "With God On Our Side"
141	-->''The First World War, boys\
142	It came and it went\
143	The reason for fighting\
144	I never did get\
145	But I learned to accept it\
146	Accept it with pride\
147	For you don't count the dead\
148	When God's on your side.''
149	* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: "With God On Our Side"
150	-->''When the Second World War\
151	Came to an end\
152	We forgave the Germans\
153	And then we were friends\
154	Though they murdered [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust six million]]\
155	In the ovens they fried\
156	The Germans now too\
157	Have God on their side.''

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